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If Human Service Minister Irfan Sabir is not willing to resign over his department’s bungled handling of an internal report into the death of a four-year-old girl, maybe he should resign for his performance the past two days after the story broke.

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Ric McIver says Albertans would never forgive their government if all sides of the house didn’t put down their swords and work together to fix the child welfare system. Thursday’s decision by government to take up his suggestion of an all-party committee to investigate the system’s flaws is something for which McIver sent Premier Rachel […]

The death of four-year-old foster child Serenity has the government considering an all-party committee to take an in-depth look at the systemic issues plaguing Alberta’s child intervention system. The proposal was put to Premier Rachel Notley by interim Progressive Conservative leader Ric McIver this week during question period. Speaking Thursday with Postmedia, McIver said past […]

The Alberta NDP caucus chairwoman wants a ruling from the ethics commissioner on whether Progressive Conservative interim leader Ric McIver should recuse himself from debate on power companies. In a letter sent to the ethics commissioner Wednesday, NDP caucus chairwoman Heather Sweet wrote that McIver’s wife operates Brighter Futures Energy Inc., which appears to create a […]

Progressive Conservative MLA Sandra Jansen saw a “sharp move to the right” at the recent weekend convention for the party she joined 30 years ago. Jansen went to the convention with the intention of running for leader, as did fellow Calgarian Donna Kennedy-Glans, but Jansen now wonders what she can add to the conversation. On Tuesday, the […]

Leaders of the province’s two main opposition parties took the stage at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association conference in Edmonton on Friday morning. Both spoke of the importance of partnerships and vowed to stand up to the NDP, but had different things to tell the crowd. Ric McIver, Progressive Conservative interim leader Between his time […]

Alberta’s transportation minister promised Friday the province will twin a 240-kilometre stretch of Highway 63 by the fall of 2016, saying the government will borrow at least some of the estimated $778 million to fast-track the project.

The province is fast-tracking three projects on Highway 63, including the construction of two new passing lanes. Transportation Minister Ric McIver announced Tuesday morning that three tenders have gone out ahead of schedule in an effort to speed the twinning of the deadly road to Fort McMurray.

Money, politics or the natural evolution of a major infrastructure project: It’s a short list of guesses why Highway 63 remains mostly untwinned. Six years ago, the Alberta government pledged to build a 240-kilometre, four-lane highway between Fort McMurray and Atmore.

The wrecks are accidental, but the reckless behaviour is wilful, and those who turn Highway 63 into a racetrack are on a collision course with the law or their own mortality. “Every Thursday night we kind of stay off the highway,” said Don Radmanovich, mayor of Boyle, a small village skirted on its western flank by Highway 63. “ We call it the McMurray 500 out here.

Echoing the sentiments of a community that has too often mourned victims of accidents on Highway 63, Premier Alison Redford said Tuesday in Fort McMurray that the government has not done enough work on twinning the highway.

In a province where incumbency is usually a ticket back to the legislature, Albertans got a lesson of what it’s like to live in a more volatile political environment Monday night. After a campaign full of horse races, early results pointed to some important victories and surprising personal defeats. Here is a look at some of the winners, losers and tight contests, based on early results.

They arrived here, to safety, just one week before the Kristallnacht pogrom, the prelude which heralded the beginning of the Final Solution.
George Goldsand was only three at the time: his memories of the familyls ordeal are hazy. Despite going through all the letters, radiograms and official documents his father kept in a shoebox, despite spending hours at the National Archives in Ottawa, Goldsand still doesn't know exactly how or why they was given the chance to come to Canada, when so many others were turned away.

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